amane yugi was in his room laying on his bed while reading one of his astronomy books——hiding from his aunt that came to visit in their household. 'i'm thirsty, but aunt ayaka might ask me some questions if i go down there.'

      tsukasa entered the room with a can of cola on his hand. "amane!" his amber eyes lit up. amane sighed in relief that his little brother came to visit with something to drink. "aunt ayaka is looking for you."

      "you know how aunt ayaka is." amane shudders. "she would ask questions about my nonexistent love life."

      "i don't mind it to be honest." tsukasa took a sip from the cola that he intended to give amane. "i don't have a lovelife yet i have the guts to show my face to her. i just said "my lovelife is the same as the money in my pocket" which i don't have any."

      "amane! aunt ayaka has something for you!"

      "can't save you anymore." tsukasa raised his hands in defeat. amane stood up and rolled his eyes, stealing the can of cola from his twin's hand and left the room to see his aunt.

      amane trudged down to the stairs to see his mom and his aunt peacefully having tea together——and what had caught his eye is that there's a guitar case resting by the couch. he doesn't recall aunt ayaka playing the guitar, wonder what this is all about. "amane! there you are!" his aunt's cheerful voice boomed through the living room.

      "hi aunt ayaka..." amane awkwardly greeted.

      "sit down amane, your aunt has something for you." his mom, ayame, gestured amane to one of the couches. amane sat down on the couch as ayaka opened the guitar case to reveal, well obviously a guitar, do you expect it to be something else?

      "auntie, what is this?" amane questioned.

      "remember toyo, your cousin? he used to play guitar for you guys as kids, he didn't have any time to use it since he's in the overseas now." ayaka handed amane the acoustic guitar in which the latter gently takes it from her wrinkled hands. "he told me to give it to you."

      "why does toyo have to give me something so valuable?" amane was hesitant to receive something from his cousin, the fact that his cousin toyo was willing to give the guitar to him—plus he had no idea how to use it.

      so...why the gift?

      "it's better for you to get the guitar rather than tsukasa, that kid would just place it down and won't use it for a day. i think amane can learn the guitar like toyo." ayame explained to her eldest son. "i think it's cute when you play the guitar."

      "you can even impress your childhood friend next door." ayame's tone turner into a teasing one. "i know you have a thing for her——"

      "mom no——" amane stopped his mom from continuing her sentence. ayame covered her mouth and chuckled, ayaka did the same. "i'll take the guitar so you can stop teasing me." he grumbled.

      and so after aunt ayaka had left, amane went upstairs to show tsukasa the guitar that his aunt gave him, it was more of a hand-me-down from his older cousin. "isn't that toyo-nii's guitar?" tsukasa pointed out.

      amane opened his mouth to speak but he sighed instead, he couldn't come up with an explanation——he didn't even know as to why toyo decided to give him the guitar instead to tsukasa. "aunt ayaka gave me the guitar because toyo went to the overseas, he couldn't use it anymore."

      "do you know how to play?" tsukasa asked.

      amane shrugged while randomly strumming the guitar strings. "i know how to use the guitar, you put your left fingers to the fret and use your right hand to strum but i don't know the other chords." he simply replied.

      "try watching some tutorials." tsukasa suggested and sat by the edge of amane's bed. the change of attitude shocked amane, he wasn't the type to give such advices——maybe he was only used to hearing to his younger brother's silly advices. "they sometimes work."

      amane for the first time in years finally took tsukasa's advice to watch tutorials on the internet. he sat down on his swivel chair in front of his laptop and grabbed the guitar. "alright, if i learn something by watching tutorials, i'll stop by the music store to buy a guitar pick."

      "you can ask [name]-neesan to go with you." tsukasa smirked and began counting his fingers. "you had a crush on her since...middle school? ten years ago? during elementary?"

      the tips of amane's ears grew red at the mention of his crush's name from tsukasa. they've been best friends since elementary and developed a crush on her over the years.

      tsukasa was prone to teasing his older brother, from urging amane to confess to him or those silly blackmails like "if you don't do this i'll tell nee-san you like her!" or something like that.

      it didn't really help that [name] literally lives next door. amane would often see her by the window and they would often converse when they had the chance. "i have an idea!" tsukasa yelled out.

      "you need to court nee-san...!" tsuksa shakes amane by the shoulder. "you liked her for years, don't you think it's time for you to get your big boy pants on and say you like her?"

      "as if that was easy." amane chuckled sarcastically.

      "i didn't say you have to confess to [name]-neesan, i just said you need to court her." tsukasa corrects his brother, putting his hands on his hips in a sassy manner. "if you're not sure if she likes you back, then pursue her into liking you——with the help of this guy." tsukasa patted the guitar.

      "you're personifying a guitar?"

      "amane, even if you say i'm dumb i can see that you're also one." tsukasa deadpanned while raising his palms to the side of his head. "what i mean to say is that, you can try serenading her by the window. i'll help you."

      tsukasa plays one of the video tutorials and pointed a finger on it. "but first you need to learn." tsukasa clasps his hands and fawned over to his wild imagination. "just imagine when you mastered a new songs with that guitar and you'll use that to win her heart, then you two will be in a relationship and then you get married and make babies——"

      amane smacked his palm to cover tsukasa's face with a huge blush on his face, preventing him from speaking any further. tsukasa is thinking way over to the future. "not any word from that got it?" tsukasa nodded as amane let go of his mouth. "now, i shall be practicing guitar." he said.

      tsukasa puts his chin between his pointer finger and thumb, nodding with a smug. he disappeared like the avatar and went to his room as he left amane to practice some beginner chords. eventually, he got the hang of positioning his fingers to each fret.

    "amane-kun!"

      amane turned around and saw [name] waving at him while running next to him. "i thought i was going to walk home alone." she groaned. "kokoro left me."

      "it's alright, we can walk to home together." amane thought it was odd since [name] would always be first at school, but then there was a slight suspicion on how tsukasa already headed to school without amane. "don't worry." he said.

      "i wonder why kokoro left so early, i'm always the one who waits for her tutoring lessons to finish and this is how she repays me." [name] slumped her shoulders in despair. kokoro is [name]'s younger twin sister, she's extroverted and eccentric like tsukasa, basically a girl version of the younger yugi twin. "oh by the way after school, can we go to the convenience store? i need to buy some pens."

      "glad that you don't have to borrow from me anymore." he joked. "i'll be buying a guitar pick as well so i'm happy to join you." amane tilted his head to the side with a grin. [name] stopped on her tracks in disbelief and amane halts.

      "you have a fracking guitar?!" [name] exclaimed.

      "yeah, my aunt gave it to me because my cousin is not using it anymore." amane scratches his head sheepishly. [name] 'ooh-ed' in response, it was quite surprising that amane was starting to play guitar all of a sudden. he didn't mention it when they were talking in class recently. "i plan to bring my guitar soon to ask our classmates for an advice."

      soon they arrived in the mall, but first they headed to the stationary shop where [name] had to buy her pens. "have you learned any songs yet?" she asked while placing the pens inside the basket.

      "you'll just have to wait." amane softly smiled at her. [name] grinned as her cheeks burned while tossing the markers to the basket. after they had checked out, they went straight to the music store. [name] suggested that he should get the black pick in which amane gratefully agreed and paid for their stuffs.

      "hey [name]?" amane called out.

      "yeah?"

      "did you heard about the rumor about butter?"

      [name] was halfway into biting her burger, lowering it down and tilted her head in confusion. "no?" but when she realized what he was going to do, she bit her lip to hold back her giggles.

      "well, i'm not going to spread it."

      [name] bursted out laughing while amane wheezed at the corny joke he made, he knew it would make [name] laugh and he was happy when she did.

      amane knew courting her would be worth it. as long as he doesn't give up on pursuing her, he vowed to make [name]'s heart flutter and look at his way.

      even if they fought about the stupidest shit ever, they would laugh it off once they resolved the argument in a second. amane can't stay mad at [name] after all. so in moments like this, he hopes it will never end.

      few stars appeared and the sky grew darker. [name] and amane walked home after buying their necessities, having long talks and cracking corny jokes. "i'll see you tomorrow."

      "i'm looking forward to see you play the guitar." [name] mentions as she reached over to open the gate to her house.

      "you online later? i wanna call you."

      "yeah."

      amane smiled and opened the gate to his house. "goodnight." [name] nodded and bid him a sweet night. just as amane went to close the door, tsukasa appeared behind with his arms crossed.

      "where have you been?" tsukasa asked while pretending to be mad.

      "i was with [name]——" tsukasa's face turned into a smirk and started teasing his older brother. "tsukasa! ugh mom, tsukasa is being annoying!"

loraine's note:

to be honest with you guys i love this book until i just winged it up till the end, i was determined to finish this immediately but then i realized on how cringy it was especially with the makeout sessions on how i explicitly described them, yeah 16 year old me was wild af. but then my dumbass got the best of me and lost the meaning of this book due to my own desires to the point that i couldn't look at it in the eye for a very long time. so i decided to do what the other tbhk authors did to their books

rewriting time 😌 i've rewritten a book before but i unpublished it for a reason. for now, i decided to focus on the harana side of the story and not let my inner hanako come out. there's no smut here dw, always has been, but i'll tone down the make out sesh (dw they won't be removed i'll just tone down the explicity) and i will add warnings so that people will be aware and skip the chapter as they like. i wasn't quite satisfied with the future chapters so i have plans of rewritting from the start, i just didn't have much time to do so and i still don't have much time yet i still managed to sneak in sum chapters HAHAHAHAHA.

though if original harana was focused on both perspectives of amane and [name] i want this to be focused on amane this time (like in blue hour) where he had to chase [name] this time, after moon y/n said that amane has to run this time so why not.

i will announce when im done compiling the original chapters into a google docs so if people want to venture into the darkness then they can :>

warnings will be made later and details, im just resting right now. i have to finish after moon. dw i'll just refine harana's writing and i'll see what i can do to replace the spicy content.

rewritten in: april 14 2022